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Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer

“So it may seem strange that researchers are looking for people to infect with an influenza virus. And they’re willing to pay.

Up to 80 volunteers age 18 to 49 are needed for a clinical trial supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.”

Imagine my surprise.

Check the date.

Via The Weather Channel

Flu Virus Clinical Trial Will Pay Volunteers $3,000 To Be Infected

November 05 2019

This is the time of year health officials routinely remind people to get their flu shots.

So it may seem strange that researchers are looking for people to infect with an influenza virus. And they’re willing to pay.

Continue reading “WHO Would Have Thought…”

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong

A possible new pandemic is forming from a deadly strain of flu emerging from Australia and will be headed to the UK as the normal flow of travels would take it. Britain will perhaps be hit with the worst flu season in 50 years. Already, there are about 170,000 cases of flu reported in Australia which is more than double this season than usual.

The strain of flu is called H3N2, and the number of flu deaths in Australia over winter has not yet been released, but it’s thought to be the worst in many years. The last major flu epidemic was in the 1968 pandemic which began in Hong Kong killing more than a million people worldwide. Flu pandemics have been linked to fluctuations in climate, and new research connects the world’s four most recent pandemics to the cyclical cooling of the Pacific Ocean near the equator.

Continue reading “This Flu Season Begins the Risk of a Pandemic 2018-2019”